Severn Suzuki: "We care about what it is going on in Rio and beyond" - The 92nd Street Y, New York

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Severn Suzuki: "We care about what it is going on in Rio and beyond"

Jun 21, 2012


At the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 12-year-old Severn Suzuki became known as "the girl who silenced the world for six minutes" with her speech to world leaders. Twenty years later, she revisited her remarks and delivered a speech today at Rio+20 that inspires and unifies a vision for environmental progress.

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